Category:Platform Opening

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The complete Symbian platform is now available for download and use under open-source licences.

Whoever you are, you can look at the source and see how it works: You can experiment with it, you can try your own ideas and, most significantly, you can be part of the Symbian community.

The Symbian Foundation was not just created to give the Symbian platform away. We've achieved one of our goals but this is just the beginning. The role of the foundation is now to steward the platform and the community. Our roadmaps, our governance and our ideas sites have been open for some time.

In this video introduction Chris Davidson highlights the key features of the Symbian platform now open to you (also available with Japanese and Chinese subtitles).

Get started

Here are a few links to help you get started:

FAQ
Get Started
You might already be familiar with Symbian, but did you know...?

Find out more...

Here on developer.symbian.org we have everything that you need as a member of the Symbian app developer community. Besides full access to the code itself (to download or to search and browse) you'll find:

• Product and Application Development Kits
• The tools that you need to create, edit, build, debug, test and install your software
• Code examples
• Books
• A full reference library
• An ever-expanding community wiki taking contributions from architects, designers, developers, integrators, testers, academics and users.

Contributor?

If you are, or want to be, a contributor to the Symbian platform, you can find what you need to get started on this site. Our forum, our wiki, our bug tracker and our blogs are open for you to ask questions, comment, share your knowledge and experience, offer your services, discuss your problems and ideas, and influence the platform's direction and evolution. The contribution FAQs on this wiki will direct you to some useful pages to read before diving in.

If you're looking for contribution opportunities or discussion of potential features, please join the community at Symbian Ideas.